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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18

and as Nettie put on mourning robes
her sweet, sympathetic face became
doubly attractive to her admirers. She
did not seem TO care for the young men
she had known from childhood. and
looked with favor on an acquaintance
she had made while attending an East
ern seminary. But this was only tenn
tOrary infatuation, says a dispatch to
the Chicago Herald. A short time ago,
while paying a visit to Rockford. ILL.,,
she met Edgar II. Scott. travelling
salesman for the Forest City Furniture
company. Scott made love to her viO-
lently. and visited her at her home. The
engagement was announced, and the
drummer was looked upon as favored
mortal.
There was one young man who had
watched this love affair with a jealous
eye. He had been the young Iady's
playmate, and as children they had been
lovers. This was Charles DuncOmbe,
son of John +. Duncombe. prominent in
Democratic politics in Iowa. Young
DuncOmbe is editor of the Northwest
ern Daily Chronicle, and is one of the
brightest newspaper men in the state.
He diSliked to see a drummer come
along and carry away the prize, and set
about frustrating the marriage. He
went to his mother. as he had always
done, and told her his troubles.
do you really want to mary Nettie?"
said she, putting her arms around her
big boys neck.
"Tll die if L DON'T" was the honest
response.
Mrs. DuncOmbe assured him that he
should marry the girl come what would.
Thus the matter rested, and the we'd
ding of Mr.. Scott and Miss Hull was set
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
TWO BROKEN HEARTS.
A Recreant Husband Found, After
Four Years Absence, Living
With Another Wife in South

A Recreant Husband Found, After
Four Years Absence, Living
With Another Wife in South
Boston.
Robert Fl. Battey, driver on the Bay
View line at South Boston, is behind the
bars in station 10, City Point, for having
one wife too many. Battey's first wife
was Dinah Brearly,a comedy little blonde
of Providence. where he was married in
1874. He had three children by her, but
the marital relations were not harmo-
NOUS, and there was considerable
trouble between the couple. Quarrels
were frequent, and Mrs. Battey was
charged with some serious misde-
separated, and Mr.. Battey came
to Boston without informing his better
half of his point of destination. She
never heard of him for over four years
until several days ago, when friend OF
hers, who is employed upon the South
Boston road, made the discovery that
her husband was at work as driver on
the cars, and sent her the information.
She and her sister called at the stables
yesterday afternoon, and there learned
for the first time that he was married
again and had some children. Mrs.
Battey had left Providence in the fore
noon, arriving at noon, but did not find
her husband and his second spouse until
last evening at supper time: Herself and
sister found them comfortably located in
happy looking home at TO East Sixth
street. She entered the place, asked
for Mr.. Battey. but was told that he
had not yet returned from his work.
Si,0e 4 rrrhi in
waiting told Mrs. Battey NO2 of the I'M
pleasant situation, and proved her
claim upon Mr.. Battey matrimOnially.
When he entered he was much sur
prised upon beholding the wife whom
he had not seen for nearly five years,
and whom he pretended to think was
dead, Hot words were banded, and
wife No. started out escorted by her
sister TO find policeman. Wife No. 2
then arose and declared that she and
her children would never again live
with such false husband. She was a
widow with two children when Battey
married her, two years ago, at Fitch
burg. She has had one child by Battey.
The accused husband sat down coolly,
awaiting results, when Mrs. Battey No.
l started off for police officer, and it
was not until late hour that a warrant
for his arrest was secured from Judge
Fallon, who issued one for adultery
only, as the forms for bigamy would en-
tail too much work and loss of time. Mr..
Battey was arrested by Sergt. Pierce
and Patrolman O'Connor, of Division IL.
He admits the act of marrying both
women, and Monday morning the COM
plant of adultery will be quashed and
one for bigamy procured. Battey claims
that be left his first wife because he
discovered that she had borne child
illegitimately before his marriage to
her. Accused is thirty-three years old.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18

for next Wednesday, Dec. so. The
trouSSeau had been ordered, and prepa-
ratiOns for the event were going forward
at rapid rate.
Affairs were becoming critical. Mrs.
DuncOmbe announced that she would
give party in honor of Miss Hull. The
party came off, and brilliant assembly
of young people were present at the
DuncOmbe mansion. As the evening
wore away the guests began to depart
When Miss Nettie retired to the cloak
room for her wrappings preparatory to
going home. she found Mrs. DuncOmbe
waiting for her. Mrs. Duncombe called
Miss Hull aside and ushered her into
the presence of the young newspaper
man and his sister, a girl about her own
age. Young DuncOmbe proposed mar
riage, was accepted on the spot. and in
Stantly there came from behind cur
tain minister of the gospel who made
them man and wife. A carriage was
in waiting, and Charles DuncOmbe and
his bride were driven TO the depot and
left at once for the East.
The affair caused a great social SenSa-
ton. Miss Hull's wedding garments
arrived and were taken in charge by
her mother. As partial recOmpenSe
for his loss it was suggested that they
be turned over to the disappointed
drummer,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
CAT-AIEAT JOHNNY.
A Man Who Is Well-known in
New York Shops. ..

A little old man entered downtown
wholesale shoe store the other day, mar
rates the New York Sun, and, after
bowling politely TO one of the clerks,
said:
Want any meat to-day?"
81 guess not, Johnny" responded the
clerk. I'VE got enough yesterday for
several days"
The little old man nodded smilingly,
and walked out on TO the sidewalk,
What does he mean" asked the re-
porter, ''by asking you if you want any
meat? You don't run restaurant here,
do you?'
No" was the reply. "Ie wants to
know whether we want any meat for the
cat. That little old man is Cat-meat
Johnny, and is known by that name all
over the downtown districts. He goes
around from one store to another and
sells them meat for the cats and dogs.
l understand he makes quite good
thing out of it. He is very neat. and
ALWAYS pleasant, somehow or another
we look for his coming"
The reporter followed the little old
man down Duane street, and saw him
go into another store. There he met
with better fortune.
Eyes, guess we will take pound"
said a clerk to whom he appealed.
Cat-meat Johnny put down his basket,
and carefully lifted the cover. Then
he took out of it piece of nice. juicy
looking meat, and weighed it on little
hanging scale.
That will be S cents,'' he said,
as the scale indicated a little over
pound.
Then he took the meat, wrapped it up
neatly in piece of brown paper, and
laid it on the counter. After he had got
his money he started off again, with his
basket on his arm. When the reporter
accoSted him he turned around, with a
very pleasant smile.
''Oh, yes" he said, II have been in
this business for some time. 1t pays me
better than selling papers. and | am not
able to do hard work. 1t gives HE
plenty of exercise and lots of fresh air,
and SO always keep in good health. l
guess am known in about all the big
wholesale stores. In those stores they
frequently have cats TO keep the mice
and rats from injuring the goods. They
keep watch dogs, too, and, of course,
they can't bother with getting the meat
to feed them, and so | help them out.
They all treat me very nicely, and some
times give me more than ask. When
ever it comes around to Christmas OF
New Years they never forget Cat-meat
Johnny"
Then he nodded pleasantly again and
trudged OH about his business.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
THE WIDOW WON HIM.
Butcher Gerlich Takes His Wife's
Money and FIees With a Fair
EnchantreSS in Black.

Goodbye, wife," remarked William
Gerlich, Williamsburg butcher, to his
pretty, dark-haired wife, as he kissed
her and his little four-year-Old daughter
in the rear of his shop. at No. SO Central
avenue, New York, says the Journal.
Il Will return in an hour" That was
last Monday. Since then nothing has
been seen or heard of him.
RumOr has it that Gerlich has fled,
and with him certain fair widow
named Mrs. Bertha Boyer, who was a
neighbor of the Gerlichs. Mrs. Boyer,
it seems, is very attractive, and made
ewes at Gerlich, who is goOd-lOOking
man of splendid physique. Mrs. Boyer
was then living with her husband, who
kept small candy shop next to the
butcher shop. She did not openly en-
courage Gerlich until a year ago, when
her husband died. Then all indiffer-
ence vanished and she began openly to
fish for his attentions, much to the scan
dial of the neighborhoOd.
On Monday last the widow packed up
her household effects and moved, no one
knows where. 1t was after the vehicle
bearing the furniture had gone that Ger
Itch babe his family good bye. There is
a considerable bit of history attached to
Gerlich of previous escapadeS with
women. From what could be learned it
seems that seven years ago he came to
this country from Rhenish Bavaria, and
obtained employment with his brother
John, who then kept large provision
store on MeserOle street, near Leon
ard. Living with the family was
a pretty German girl. who was en-
plOyed as domestic. She fell i'll love
| with the dashing William. Several
months after he suddenly left the city,
leaving the unfortunate girl searching
for him. Going to Springfield, ILL.,, he
| obtained employment as bartender in
a large clearinghouse, where he made
the acquaintance of his wife, then a
pretty Southern girl named Annie Heg-
eman, VINO married him in spite
of her parents objections just
! fourteen days after she first saw him.
They came East and located in
Williamsburg, where Gerlich opened
the butcher shop at his present address.
They lived happily together until two
| years ago, when the youngest child was
born, and Mrs. Gerlich received letter
| from a young woman living in the
neighbOrhoOd who made some serious
allegations against her husband. The
blow was such serious one that it re-
| suited i'll her lingering between life and
death for several weeks. She never
| forgave her husband. and at one time
was taking steps to obtain a separation.
When seen Mrs. Gerlich was attend
ing the store She appeared Indifferent
over her husbands sudden departure,
and said that business had increased
since he went away. She has asked the
police in the Fourteenth precinct to look
for her recreant lord and master. Mrs.
Gerlich stated that when her husband
departed he took with him s175, which
was her property. She has very little
hopes of ever receiving it again, and is
positive that her husband and the widow
have left together.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18

face of a youthful news gatherer. If he
had never taken the slightest interestin
gloves before he certainly did now, and
the obliging young woman kindly con-
tinued.
These light gray and mastic gloves
with seams Tapped and finished about
the wrist with strip of black leather
and several rows OF black stitching are
the newest styles out, and are quite the
proper thing for lady'S street dress.
NO; they are not exactly suitable for
evening wear. Gloves for that use
should be made of undreSSed kid, and
the most fashionable color is shade of
light tan. But the proper fad is TO have
slippers made out of a similar material
and of the exact color. These should
be worn with Suede-colOred silk stock
ings, if you know what those are"
The reporter did not betray his ignO-
rance, however keenly he may have re-
GREETED it.
There are other fashions in ladies'
street gloves" continued the young
woman; these four-button gloves with
embroidery on the back in black or self
colored stitching are very correct and
extremely popular. You notice the
size of the buttons. They are gilt and
are nearly nall an men III diameter.
They are the proper thing. The stitch
ing is made by machine and is smooth
on the under side, SO that it.dOes not hurt
the hands as hand embroidery does"
But aren't those gloves all rather
large, OF do all gloves look larger when
they are off the hand than when they
are filled?" ventured the inquisitor.
Not at all, but they are making gloves
laroar I1nNxy tbon fnrmallU They 1Tp
loose in the wrist and give more room
for the blood TO circulate. With the
present style, cold fingers are far less
usual than they were season or so ago.
The prices? They are about the same.
There is always one staple thing about
the glove trade and that is the price.
Remember that point. 1t may be valu-
able some day, you can't tell. Report
ers do sometimes marry and such in
formation may be useful to you when
you begin housekeeping"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
IF SO, THEN YOU HAVE CA
TARRH.
A Few Symptoms of. a Disease
That May Prove Seriousto You.

lHdO Way IfOfC ScFlOuS 10 Il gu.
Do you have frequent fits of mental depres-
sion? 80"
Do you experience ringing or buzzing
noises in your ears?
Do you feel as though you must suffocate
when lying down?
Are you troubled with a hacking cough and
general debility?
Are your eyes generally weak and Watery,
and frequently inflamedy
Does your voice have husky, thick sound
ana a nasal sort of twang?
Is your breath frequently offensive from
some unaccountable cause?
Have you dull, oppressive headache, gen
orally located over the eyes?
Do you have to hawk and cough frequedtly
In the effort to clear your throat?
Are you losing your sense of smell and is
your sense of taste becoming dulled?
Does your nose always feel stopped up
forcing you to breathe through your mouth?
Do you frequently feel dizzy, particularly
when STOPPING TO pick anything off the floor?
Does every little draught of air and every
slight change of temperature give you a cold?
Are you annoyed by constant desire to
hawk and spit out an endless quantity Of
phlegm?
Are you always tired and indisposed to ex-
ertion, whether of business, work or amuse-
ment?
Is great effort required to keep your
thoughts fixed upon matters that formerly
were easily performed!
DO you IlSe Ucu Us Urea ana weak as
you were the night before and feel as though
you wanted to lie there forever?
Is your throat filled with phlegm in the
morning. which can only be discharged after
violent coughing and hawking and Splitting!
Do you occasionally wake from troubled
sleep with a start and feel as if you had Just
escaped a horrible death by choking?
Have you lost all interest in your calling or
business or former pleasures, all ambition
gone, and do you feel Indifferent whether to-
morrow finds you alive or dead?
Are you troubled with discharge from the
head into the throat, sometimes watery and
excessive, sometimes mucous, thick, sticking
to whatever it touches sometimes bloody and
nearly always putrid and offensive?
The above are some of the many symptoms
of catarrh and the beginning of lung troubles
Not one case in a hundred will have all of
them, but everyone affected will have few
or many. of them. The greater or
dangerous your condition. This
class of diseases is treated very sue
cessfully by DR.. Mccoy or his associates The
many cases reported through the columns of
the daily papers prove this, and each state
ment published is substantially the same as
given by the patient cured. DR.. Mccoy and
his associates use no secret nOstrumS but
cure diseases by their skillful combination of
the best known remedies, applied in the most
approved manner, and by using the latest and
most highly recommended appliances known
to the profession. They thus produce results
which speak for themselves in the many pa
tents cured, and we assure our readers that
these eminent physicians have achieved a
success in curing disease which few or no
other doctors can duplicate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
HAVING THEIR COFFINs MADE
The Gorgeous Affairs That DIR.
Hitler and His Wife Will Re-
nose In

Hitler and His Wife Will Re-
pose In.
Special to New York World
Dr.. Henry Hitler and wife, of Viii
mingtOn, Mass, do not like the idea of
their bodies being consigned. when
dead, to the ordinary wooden coffin, and
are having constructed for them two
pompOuS caSketS of mahogany. which
they hope may be able to endure for I'M
told ages. Mrs. Hitler says the COM
mon wooden collins fall to pieces within
forty-eight hours after mother earth re-
ceiveS them.
The Killers have spent SO on their
collins, which are beauties of mechani-
cal and artistic skill. Each easket con-
SiStS of two parts, OF, in other words.
each body will have two collins. The
inner coffin is composed of mahogany,
made alright by being completely en-
VelOped in copper. 1t rests within the
outside caSket on two elegant brass sup
ports, which represent the big paws of
lion.
1t is Oh the outside casket, however,
that the most lavish expenditure has
been made. This is of mahogany also,
the interior being lined with copper, the
mountings Of the latter being nOticeably
fine. Every panel contains group of
figures, and it is here the beauties of the
carver's art are made apparent.
Every figure is carefully and accur-
ately made, and stands out in bold and
striking relief. Each panel and its fig
ures must have provided weeks of la
Dor. To enumerate the symbols and
figures which the artist has impaired
with living flourish to the receptacle
of the dead would be to rehearse the
names of all the familiar reproductions
of the animate and inanimate in decor
alive art. A lion rampant here, fierce
fanged griffin. birds of every species,
fishes. flowers, plants, trees, the bow
and arrow, etc., while in central posi-
tons are seen Flora and Ceres, cherubs
blowing trumpets, angels tuning harps,
Apollo with his Tyre, Jupiter with thun-
derbolts, Neptune with his trident, etc.
The Baskets have been constructed at
DIR. Killers house. He says he has
been offered $4,000 by a prominent
Snowman to exhibit them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
DEATH.

And here, last night, you say woman
died!'
The careless stranger mutters, and doth pass.
The neighbors sigh, "a woman good and
tried;
But death finds all, alasr'
"a true and faithful SOUL the priest de-
clares,
"An interesting case" the doctor drones,
Her husband on the coffin lid but stares-
my all is gone!' he means.
Itchy Gezu.
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was the trusted adviser of the great corpora
tons merged under the title of the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad, under the
able headship of the late Commodore Van
derbilt.
In his present position he has in his pri-
vate employ one of the most expert stenog-
raphers in THE country, who is able to take
from distatiOn on an average about 200 words
per minute. st. Paul and Minneapolis have sew
eral expert manipulators of the pencil. On a
recent visit to the Washburn mill the writer
happened TO meet Mr.. Hunt young man
well-known in the Twin Cities as an expert
stenographer, who is employed at that bust
ness for the above named milling company.
said to the writer: Il had been
troubled for about four or five
years with hacking cough and more or less
splitting of phlegm or mucus. which was
tough and hard to remove. In the morning
had great trouble in removing the same,
and frequently would gag so much that it was
with great difficulty that could refrain from
vomiting. My mucous membrane seemed to
be considerably inflamed. l had
more or less headache. or dull
tired with no ambition. My appetite was
poor, and to make matters worse my hearing
was seriously affected, and being somewhat
of lover of outdoor exercise, such as riding
the bicycle, noticed that my wind was very
deficient. / had frequent pains in my chest
slight symptoms that made me think l had
catarrh. So to the Office of DR.. Mccoy hied
myself thither for consultation and to get his
method of treatment. After a care
fCl examination the doctor told me
1 was suffering from catarrh of the
nose, throat, and partial closure
of the eustachian tube, and that was what
caused the deafness. l began his treatment,
and want to say he has done far more for
me than he promised. My hearing has been
fully restored, so that hear as well as ever.
have no aches or pains. sleep well, have an
excellent appetite and am i'll excellent spir-
its. 1 consider him or any of his associates
capable TO treat with success all diseases of
the throat, lungs and respiratory organs and
most cheerfully add my testimonial to
the many already cured of one
of the most loathsOme as well as the most
dangerous and treacherous diseases the hui
man body is subject TO, as doctor making a
specially Of any particular disease is like a
man who becomes expert at any other bust
ness, being more capable of performing that
particular business than Jack OF all
trades" Il
Mr.. Hunt is now employed by the Wash
burn Mill company and viii verify the above
statement TO any who may call on him and
make the inquiry.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
GLOVES AND GLOVE LORE.

A Pretty SaleswOman Enlightens
a Reporter Regarding Some Sc
crets of the Trade.
''YOu want to know about glOves?"
A pretty saleswOman leaned across the
counter of one of the leading uptown
glove empOriums and smiled into the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18

became rational, and on advice of her
physicians change of scene for the
sick lady was resolved upon, and yes
terday the family started for their for
mer home in New York state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18

WI II j II = aIlentlOu.
There was q time
when the level-headed
Central railroad pres
ldent, whose pros
perity and high posi-
ton no one in any
way envies, was a
counselor struggling
for a modest living in
the local courts. But
his geniality and orig
,inalily, his admirable
rhetorical methods
and his keen insight
into human nature
brought him to the
front as a lawyer, and
hQfOra many wears he
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18
How an Ambitions Young Man Pro-
crossed and Arose to
SO Fame.
How Chauneey b. Depew, the Word
Master Of the Western
Hemisphere,
Lawyer, Railroad President and After
Dinner Speaker, Possible Can
didate for President Of the
United States.

There are few Of our fellow citizens whose
countenances are so readily recognized as
the genial face of the president of the New
York Central & Hudson River railroad, and
very surely there are few or none to whose
every utterance, whether as TO the condition
of railroad the prosperity of the country,
the Chinese question, or the public sentiment
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-18

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Medical diseases treated 1skillfully.
Consumption, Bright's disease, dyspep-
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Hiss Nettie Hull Creates a
Social Sensation in Fort
Dodge, 10.
A Married Couple Having Two
Fine Burial CasketS Con-
structed for Them.
Gloves and Glove Love--How
Cat-Meat Johnny Makes
a Living.
The Curse That Rests Upon
an Iowa Man--TWo
Broken Hearts.
Butcher Gerlieh Ran Away
With a Widow--Stole for
His Sweetheart.

ISIS Nettie Hull
was the acknOwl-
edged belle in a
city full of pretty
women at Fort
Dodge. 10. She
was the youngest
: daughter of Mrs.
g. NJ. Hull, and
has just turned
h er twentieth
year. Her father,
George VI. Hull.
who had been a
dry goods mer-
chant, died about
two wears ago.